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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Another Special Election, Another Really Bad Sign For The GOP — One might describe Arizona's 8th Congressional District as ... nondescript. Covering portions of Phoenix's northern and western suburbs, including the Arizona Cardinals' home stadium, the district isn't all that geographically …
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New York Times:
Republicans Lost Support in Every Special Election Since Trump Became President — Republicans have fared far worse in recent special congressional elections compared with previous elections. — Republican margin of victory — In a special House election on Tuesday, Debbie Lesko …
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Politico, Arizona Republic, Washington Post and Splinter
New York Times:
Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District — CandidatePartyVotesPct. — Rep. — 82,294 — Hiral Tipirneni — Dem. — 73,188 — 155,482 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 143 precincts) — The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge …
Axios:
Trump's election nightmare — Top Republicans have conceded for months that they're likely lose the House in November's midterms. But some well-wired operatives now tell Axios that President Trump may face his real nightmare: losing the Senate, giving Democrats both ends of the Capitol, and one-third of the government.
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Arizona Republic, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Debbie Lesko Wins Arizona Special Election for Congress, Rallying G.O.P.
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National Review, Outside the Beltway and Politico
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Republican Debbie Lesko scores tight win in Arizona special election, NBC News projects
Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
‘Blue Wave’ Fizzles as AP Declares Republican Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why the win for Republicans in Arizona 8 is still good for Democrats
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog — WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …
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New York Times:
Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship — KEYSER, W.Va. — Don Blankenship is running for the United States Senate as a proud West Virginian with Appalachian roots, but his primary residence is a $2.4 million villa with palm trees and an infinity pool near Las Vegas.
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Harry Reid says Trump is damaging the country but warns against impeachment
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CNN:
VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say — (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications … A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner — WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the ousted national security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Body politic: Trump puts personal ‘touch’ on diplomacy with Macron
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Ronan Farrow: Hillary Clinton Tried to Cancel Interview Because I Was Reporting on Weinstein Story — Ronan Farrow appeared on Good Morning America Wednesday to talk about his new book, and made a revelation about an interview he was slated to have with Hillary Clinton.
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Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress:
Unearthed photo reveals ‘New Yorker’ Steve Mnuchin enjoys solar eclipses after all — When the public first learned about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's trip aboard a (pricey) military jet to tour Fort Knox last August, it didn't take an astrologer to note the interesting timing of the visit …
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
The officers pulled over a car whose Nevada registration had expired. The car was driven by a male friend of her daughter, who was a passenger in the back seat — The daughter had called her mother after the vehicle was pulled over as they were driving along Route 9W in Bergen County on March 31.
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy. — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Kirsten Gillibrand Unveils A Public Option For Banking — The idea would provide a low-cost alternative to payday loans — and it might just save the Postal Service, too. — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require every U.S. post office …
Jay Rosen / NYR Daily:
Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing — There is alive in the land an organized campaign to discredit the American press. This campaign is succeeding. Its roots are long. For decades, the Republican coalition has tried to hang together by hating on elites who claim to know things, like: “What is art?”
Tennessean.com:
Phil Bredesen holds narrow edge over Marsha Blackburn, new Mason-Dixon poll shows — Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn are the leading candidates to replace Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate Michael Schwab/USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee — Another poll on the U.S. Senate race between former …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBC Bet $69 Million on Megyn Kelly—Then Viewers Vanished — The former Fox News star was supposed to bring a bigger audience for ‘Today,’ but ratings declines and high costs have dragged down a critical franchise — Megyn Kelly was supposed to bring star power to NBC News and a bigger …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump's Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast — On Dec. 14, 2016, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump had a call with the prime minister of Vietnam. At a time when foreign governments were scrambling to contact Trump …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses — MOLKINO, Russia (Reuters) - The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with Russian civilians fighting in Syria but on three recent occasions groups of men flying in from Damascus headed straight to a defense ministry base …
Jack Date / ABC News:
Former US attorney is part ex-FBI Director James Comey's legal team — Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald — who has prosecuted high-profile cases taking on terrorists, mobsters, drug dealers and political corruption — is representing former FBI Director James Comey.
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Ex-U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on Comey's legal team
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He's Not Real. — Drew Cloud is everywhere. The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC …
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New York Times:
Pruitt's Security Chief Moonlighted for Tabloid Publisher That Helped Trump — WASHINGTON — The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Arizona GOP winner to join Freedom Caucus — Rep.-elect Debbie Lesko, who narrowly won a special election in Arizona Tuesday night, is expected to join the House Freedom Caucus after she is sworn in, the conservative group's leader, Chairman Mark Meadows — (R-N.C.) told The Hill.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
How the Trump Show Gets Old — On September 20, 2004, the director of the Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles welcomed a packed crowd to an evening discussion “featuring the two people responsible for giving television audiences across America a mesmerizing cultural phenomenon. ...
Amani Hughes / Daily Express:
Alfie Evans latest: Why is there an air ambulance on stand-by? Could Alfie get treatment? — THE parents of the terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans are making a last ditch court bid to take him to Italy for treatment after a judge dismissed a request yesterday, but why is there an air ambulance on stand-by?
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Reena Flores / Politico:
‘Like vigilantes on the rampage’: Top donor blasts Democrats' response to #MeToo — Susie Tompkins Buell, a close friend of Hillary Clinton, called the ousting of Al Franken ‘unfair’ and ‘a stain on the Democrats’ — Susie Tompkins Buell, the prominent Democratic donor …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Plans BuzzFeed-Set Docuseries ‘Follow This’ — The shortform series will follow the journalists at BuzzFeed News as they report a variety of stories. — Netflix is shining a spotlight on the journalists behind the news in an upcoming docuseries. — The streamer has ordered Follow This …
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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow … In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion …
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
GOP candidate gets Nazi sympathizer's endorsement after paying him $5k — Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward coincidentally paid $5,000 to Seb Gorka on the same day he endorsed her. Also coincidentally, this is the third time Gorka has been involved in such a transaction.
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Arizona Republic
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democrat Wins New York Assembly Seat, the 40th Legislative Flip Since Trump's Inauguration — Democrat Steve Stern won his race in New York's 10th Assembly District on Tuesday night, a Long Island district that had been in the hands of Republicans for more than three decades.
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Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Energy Sec. Rick Perry's son owns an energy investment company. Is that a problem? — WASHINGTON — A private investment firm led by Energy Secretary Rick Perry's son has notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that it's seeking investors for a new energy fund …
Jared Kushner / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's ‘Forgotten Men and Women’ Include Prisoners — The administration urges Congress to make it easier for released inmates to re-enter society. — The facts about America's prison system are startling. The U.S. has 4% of the world's population, but roughly 25% of the world's prisoners.
Fox News:
Comey's memo leak contact had ‘special government employee’ status at FBI — The Columbia law professor James Comey used as a go-between last year to leak the contents of sensitive memos to the media confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that he previously worked as a “special government employee” (SGE) for Comey's FBI on an unpaid basis.
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